Original artwork description:

The figure—an androgynous creature with a deer’s head, wounded human body, and a katana in hand—embodies a process of symbolic self-representation, not through likeness, but through existential resonance. There is no recognizable face, yet a psychic presence emerges, revealing a fractured self dwelling simultaneously in fragility and force, ritual and instinct.
Far from the classical narrative of Hermes as divine messenger, here the title is shifted toward a more complex realm: the character becomes an inner Hermes, a mediator between shadow zones, an archetypal entity embodying the passage between repressed animality and symbolic language as a path toward redemption.

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